Word: successful
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Television, which once seemed a magic carpet to elective office, seems to have lost some of its talismanic quality, and is least effective in local races. More than ever, the ingredients of political success are charisma, stamina-and lucre. Indeed, whether or not inflation proves a telling issue with the voters in November, politicians agree that the cost of campaigning has soared almost beyond reason...
...their best to avoid neighborhood coffee klatsches as too time-consuming in terms of voters palmed per hour. Instead, they bustle through factories, supermarkets and bowling alleys, developing calluses as they strive for 300 hands an hour. This year especially the individual candidate must grope his own way to success, since there are no presidential coattails to hang...
Drowned in Din. Despite Cronkite's unqualified success as a newsman, the network persuaded him to try to be an entertainer as well. Reluctantly, he agreed to host a CBS morning program to compete with Dave Garroway's Today Show, and he found himself a hostage to show business. A gag writer was hired to write his lines, and he lost control of the program. "I was reasonably charming," he insists to this day, "but the whole thing didn't work...
...spite of these drawbacks, Hilles Library is a success. The architect wants it to be a pleasant place, and it is. Like any building it is a compromise between contradictory demands, and in this case the architect has favored those of the leisurely student over those of the hard-driving...
Unfortunately, the financial success of the New York Film Festival will probably serve to preserve is status as the "establishment" film festival. But maybe if nobody buys tickets next year, Richard Roud will have to program all eight hours of Andy Warhol's "The Chelsea Girls." And then,, everything will start to be all right...